[oXygen-user] Correct XPath expression to get title nexted in xhtml <span>'s

Mon Feb 27 08:08:27 CST 2012

Hi,

Please note that the a element is empty and all the content is inside a 
div which is the following sibling of the a element.
So your XPath should look something like
<xsl:value-of 
select="html:div/html:div/html:div/html:div/html:span/html:span"/>

However, please note that this will select also the second span element 
as that matches the above expression. To match only the first you may want
<xsl:value-of 
select="(html:div/html:div/html:div/html:div/html:span/html:span)[1]"/>

If you set xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" in 
your XSLT then you will not need html: to qualify the name tests, as 
they will be taken to be in the namespace specified by 
xpath-default-namespace. This will help you because you can go in 
oXygen, on the element you want to refer and use the "Copy XPath" action 
from the contextual menu, that will give you in this case
/html/body[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/span[1]/span[1]
which will select exactly that element.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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On 2/27/12 3:51 PM, McGibbney, Lewis John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whilst working on xhtml -->  xml xslt I've run into a blocker when trying to specify the XPath expression to get a title embedded within nested xhtml<span>'s. A snippet from the body of my xhtml is below:
>
> <body>
>    <a name="gen01" id="gen01"></a><div id="content">
>                  <div id="page1" class="page css-gen1">
>                          <div style="width:150pt;height:12pt;left:34pt;top:33pt">
>                                  <div style="top:9pt">
>                                          <span class="css-gen2">
>                                                  <span>domestic | general | application | 2010</span>
>                                          </span>
>                                  </div>
>                          </div>
>                          <div style="width:65pt;height:61pt;left:34pt;top:69pt">
>                                  <div style="top:11pt">
>                                          <span class="css-gen3">
>                                                  <span class="css-gen4">Application</span>
>                                          </span>
>                                  </div>
> ...
>
> And so far my xsl looks like
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>      xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>      xmlns:xd="http://www.oxygenxml.com/ns/doc/xsl"
>      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>      xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata"
>      xmlns:ukl="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation"
>      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1"
>      xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms"
>      xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org2005/Atom"
>      xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation
>      http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/schemaLegislationBase-v1-0.xsd"
>      xml:base="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2011/120"
>      exclude-result-prefixes="xs xd"
>      version="2.0">
>      <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
>      <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>      <xd:doc scope="stylesheet">
>          <xd:desc>
>              <xd:p><xd:b>Created on:</xd:b>  Feb 21, 2012</xd:p>
>              <xd:p><xd:b>Author:</xd:b>  lewismc</xd:p>
>              <xd:p></xd:p>
>          </xd:desc>
>      </xd:doc>
>      <xsl:template match="/">
>          <Legislation>
>              <xsl:apply-templates select="html:html"/>
>          </Legislation>
>      </xsl:template>
>      <xsl:template match="html:html/html:body">
>          <Secondary>
>              <Body DocumentURI="" IdURI="" NumberOfProvisions="">
>                  <P1group>
>                      <Title>
>                          <xsl:value-of select="html:a/html:div/html:div/html:div/html:span/html:span"/>
>                      </Title>
>
> I know this looks ridiculous, (I've tried many XPath combinations) so apologies in advance for anyone that either laughing or crying whilst viewing this.
> Basically, I would like to get as output
>
> <Secondary>
>    <Body NumberOfProvisions="" IdURI="" DocumentURI="">
>      <P1group>
>        <Title>domestic | general | application | 2010</Title>
>
> Anyone that could give me a pointer would make me very happy.
>
> Kind Regards and thank you in advance.
>
> Lewis
>
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